A review of sustainable development in the Chilean mining sector: past, present and future

作者：Ghorbani Yousef^*; Kuan Seng How

来源：International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment, 2017, 31(2): 137-165.

DOI：10.1080/17480930.2015.1128799

• Sustainable development
• Chilean mining industry
• copper
• environmental impact
• energy

Chile is the principal producer of copper with a total of 5.8million tonnes fine copper production in 2013. Chilean mining industry currently faces a projected increase in waste production, depleting water resources in the arid mining regions of the north and a lack of fossil fuel energy sources. In this study, a review of the historical background of environmental practices in Chile is presented, focused between 1970 and 2010. A review of the current state of sustainable development, comprising energy, water, stakeholder participation, environmental impacts and institutional decentralisation in the mining industry is presented.

• 出版日期2017-3